Full data with DHCP server and BOOTP client

[Christoph Pleger]

Hallo,

> > That means that information about  ROOT_PATH, YPDOMAIN, YPSRVR,
> > NTPSRVS, T170, DOMAIN and SEARCH is missing now. What can I do for
> > retrieving that information from the server again?
> 
> 	I seem to recall that you can force the default parameter list
> 	by specifying something like this:
> 
> option dhcp-parameter-request-list 1,3,6,15,42,66,150
> 
> 	You'll need to work out what the option numbers are, that you
> need, and specify those instead.  For example, ROOT_PATH seems to be 
> 	option 17.
> 
> 	I hope this helps.

By the way, does anybody know about a DHCP client program that simply
retrieves information from the server and displays it (like bootpc
does), but does not try to configure things like IP address etc. locally
on the client machine and does not set itself to background?

Regards
  Christoph